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Whewy! This has been an exhausting process! I have been trying to customize my website (using tumblr as my hosting site). While most of the layout was alright, I wanted to change the background, the favicon and the header. I figured I will share what I learned (and the resources I used/dissected) to get the end result 🙂

Basic Scroll Box
First off, I learned how to do this neat box that can scroll (link). I learned it just for this blog post so it wouldn’t be too messy! You’re welcome 😉

I saw this quote today and knew I had to do something with it right away. I figured I should learn something new while I was at it and I went to my favorite default blog for tutorials, Blog Spoon Graphics.

For the following image, I used this tutorial and one of the amazing photos my sister took when she helped me move down to Arizona and we visited the Grand Canyon.

Per my graphic design course at Mozilla School of Webcraft (yes I did choose this program partially for the Harry Potter reference) I must write a blog post about why I am getting into web design:

The biggest reason I am getting into web design is because of a little game that I played when I was younger on AOL dial-up called Neopets.

I have always been a computer nerd and gamer ever since my father brought home a computer back in 1997. At first I used the computer to play games and/or watch my brother play games such as: King, Heroes of Might and Magic, Doom, and Sims City. I also would use the computer’s paint program and practice my art (I thought drawing on the computer was pretty magical).

Thanks to Neopets, I taught myself HTML at 10 years old. I wanted to make “pages” for my pets (unfortunately they are no longer around, how fun would it be to see my very first websites!). When I found a web design element that I liked and wanted to use and Neopets did not teach it (this was before Google), I would dissect the code myself to learn what made each website tick. I even thought to myself when I was younger, “This would be really fun to do as a living when I grow up!” However, my silly young brain told me that, “By the time I grow up, all the websites will be designed and it wouldn’t be a plausible career path for me.” Now I see the error of my ways, and as they say, “Better late than never”.

Web design marries two of my passions – art and science (design and coding). I am excited to embark on this journey and excited to see where it takes me.